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Dr R. H. Mole, Director of the MRC Radiobiology Unit at Harwell, offers some personal reflections on the recent nuclear power report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Italian authorities are now pondering how to clean up an area near Seveso in northern Italy, following an accident last July which released large quantities of dioxin into the environment. Some important new information bearing on the problem has surfaced in the United States. Colin Norman reports
A UK parliamentary committee last week published a 96-page report on university-industry relations. Chris Sherwell reports on the various institutional proposals of what could become a controversial document
The Food and Drug Administration last week issued a set of regulations designed to help combat a growing scandal over drug testing in the United States. Colin Norman reports from Washington
The EEC's Council of Research Ministers met in Brussels last week to discuss once again the Joint European Torus (JET), the Community's fusion project, and the research programme for the Community's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Chris Sherwell reports
In the case of major and complex technological decisions in our time, such as that on nuclear power, it is sometimes said that the public is unable to make a full evaluation on its own and needs to trust some established professional and political mechanism instead. Jan M. Döderlein of the Institutt for Atomenergi, Norway, comments on the roles of the professionals and the nuclear critics.
The Soviet Union will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sputnik-1 next year at the same time as the diamond jubilee of the October Revolution, Vera Rich reports
